As an overview, the Internet Archive has regional digitization centers in 30 locations and 7 countries. Our teams digitize over 1200 eBooks per day and we have the capacity to digitize over 1,000 reels of film per week. We have worked with over a thousand library partners who have allowed their content to be digitized.

You may also visit OpenLibrary.org to use our "free for the public" eBook Lending library of millions of titles with unlimited downloads and no limit on how long to borrow any of these librarian-curated eBooks.

If you would like to have access to over 200,000 modern eBook, please join the 1,000+libraries and the 51 United State Chief Operating Librarians who are members of our free modern eBook lending library.

For begin a digitization project, to sign up for our Modern eBook lending program or for other questions, please contact Robert Miller, Global Director of Books, Robert@archive.org

There are 7 items in this collection that will cover the 7 basics steps to start working with us. We hope to hear from you soon!

• Step 1 - A video tour of what a scanning center looks like
• Step 2 - IA Scanning FAQ, top line overview of the global digitization program
• Step 3 - Book Digitization Process Document sheet, which shows the specs and QA for the process.
• Step 4 - The Partner Form, which captures the data necessary to get a Library Partner set up. This is filled out in advance of any test of the incoming collection.
• Step 5 - The Sample Pick List Request Form, which should be used to submit an item for a test scan in advance of sending a large amount of material.
• Step 6 - The Content Agreement, which details the responsibility parameters of both Internet Archive, and the Partner(s), and the logistics of the scanning project.
• Step 7 - The Wonderfetch sheet, which is used to capture the metadata that travels with a collection.